Source: NATIONAL SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE COALITION, 8/31/18


American producers operating smaller farms will have a higher price to pay when it comes to complying with the Food Safety Modernization Act’s (FSMA) Produce Safety Rule (“Produce Rule”), according to a recent United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Economic Research Service (ERS) report. Compliance costs for the smallest farms are estimated to be as high as seven percent of their annual produce sales, whereas ERS estimates that the largest farms would only pay 0.33 percent of their annual sales.

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